Pharmaceutical manufacturing engineering degree apprenticeship Review

On a day-to-day, I am given odd jobs to perform around the office, this can be helping out others with their jobs, or working on a project for the production environment. I began my apprenticeship with a large project involving GMP but since that has been completed I have run out of goal oriented tasks and it is hard to get meaningful tasks.

My programme is not very well structured, again I understand that I am a guinea pig in a sense for this new apprenticeship. However, I would have liked some real projects to work on that really involve physically working on machines.

I receive lots of support from all my colleagues around me, as much as they can give. The only issue is that in the production environment, problems arise all the time that they have to deal with constantly. So are often putting out fires which makes it hard for them to give up time, But when they can they always help.

Whenever I have any questions involving a subject or an assignment, the lecturers are always happy to help with anything. They answer them as best they can with quick responses too. There is also the Learning Development Centre which can help you with work too.

It is hard to say how well my uni work has contributed to my role, because of the tasks I perform daily, but lots of it seems to play a part at some point in the engineering pipeline. Electrical, mechanical and general practice in engineering are all covered in the course.

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I think even considering the setbacks of my course, GSK is an incredibly secure company to work for, and has lots of perks that come with it. Everyone here is incredibly friendly as well. Yes, my course can frustrate me, however I understand that it's hard to navigate the manufacturing environment whilst trying to teach someone new everything that goes on, nonetheless I am making progress and enjoying it, and I suspect that future apprentices will have more of a structure, it only picks up from here.